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Well, being called by the wrong name cold explain why they were truculent.

I've got a new avatar in honor of Rex Ryan.

Yup. My specific complaint was that the chiefs and rams spent as much "equity" on the DL as those 2 teams yet sucked ass. I also had a problem with the system because if the Bills had selected Ryan Denney at Josh Reed's spot in 2002, they would have been near the top in draft equity.

Your rantings are nothing more than a bitter old man who is stuck in the 80s and still thinks football is 3 yards and a cloud of dust. And you're literally the only poster that thinks the Spiller selection was a marketing move. Repeating it over and over doesn't make it more correct. He was BPA. If Ralphie was after a marketing move, he would have taken a QB, plain and simple. As for AKC, the funniest part about that entire snafu was that i actually agreed with his point of view. I just had an issue with his statistics.

Yawn. I suppose we're going to have to hear your asinine "Spiller was drafted to sell tickets" spiel repeatedly until when? About next january when you start your annual, "the bills are going to draft a first round DB" whining?

I'd like one of the "we'd should have traded schobel in March" mouth breathers to answer this: What team is going to trade anything for a 32 year old guy who isn't sure if he's going to play this upcoming season, and thinks there's a good likelihood he'll retire?

If McKelvin could catch, he'd be a WR, not a CB. Good to see Stevie johnson looking good.

Well, that probably plays a big role (Marshawn's off the field stuff, not the twitter. I dont see why a bunch of grown-ups care what someone says on their twitter. I mean really, who has less of a life, the guy who tweets what he's doing, or the people on this board who sit there and pound F5 repeatedly so they can read the next tweet?) But the draft status has much to do with it. Everyone loves George Wilson here. But if Wilson was taken 8th overall and Whitner was a low round pick, Wilson would be the one being strung up. Twobillsdrive has a rich history of attempting to run 1st round draft picks out of town from the moment they don't dominate on snap 1 of their NFL career.

Because Jackson's 2009 season was no better than Lynch's 2007 or 2008. But yet Fred Jackson is the next Thurman Thomas according to many on these boards. People like him not because his actual talent is that high, but only because he's outplayed his UDFA status. If Jackson reproduced his '09 season but was a second rounder, he wouldn't be nearly as highly thought of.

The real question for the city now is how they are going to find an excuse to keep paying 15 friends and family members $75K + full benefits for being on the "bass pro exploratory natural historical preservation and research site development team for the greater buffalo metropolitan area subcommittee."

People have often complained that they wanted better cut scenes in Madden for the winning teams. To me this is just them trying to answer the complaints and to make the game more realistic. After all, the winning team does go to the white house and meet the president.

So which LT would you have drafted at #9? Bulaga who didn't go until the mid-20s? Or Davis who had some serious work ethic concerns and red flags?

Because he said we couldn't address all of our needs in one offseason. If the Bills took an OT in round 2 for example, you'd be here bitching that we didn't address the NT position.

Schobel isn't pulling a favre at all. He's not makign a scene or spectacle, and from all reports, the Bills were aware of what's been going with him. He's nto hanging us out to dry. He's simply taking his time. Also, for guys that have played ball all their life, when this time of year comes around, football is all they know. Schobel has probably been prepping for football season at this time of year for the last 25 years of his life. Its gotta be tough to simply stop, and it doesn't surprise me that he might get the urge to come back and play 1 more year. If he does, the defense is better for it.

I know its an argument of semantics, but i'm hesitant to apply the "holdout" label to rookies who aren't signed in time for camp. When basically everyone else around the league is in camp, then a holdout happens. Jamarcus Russell was a holdout. Brady Quinn was a holdout. Aaron Maybin was a holdout. Players that either want more money and are missing time because they can't get a deal done are holdout. Rookies that haven't signed their rookie deals aren't really true "holdouts" in the sense. For all we know, both sides in the negotiation haven't made an offer to the other, or perhaps they are very close to signing and are just waiting to see what the other players around them get.

Technically, since the Milky Way is in the range of 100,000 to 120,000 light years wide, and we are roughly 2/3 of the way out from the center, the exoplanets aren't "millions" of light years away.

Given the names tossed out on this list, i'd say the average age (and maturity level) of most of the posters is about 15.

Someone please explain how passing on Oher was Nix's fault.

Tough to single out one player as a "holdout" when 30/31 other 1st rounders remain unsigned.

I gotta agree with Bartshan, KD. The dollar value of a scholarship is minimal compared to the sickening amount of loot the universities rake in. They get paid for what is essentially slave labor. And the scholarships are a joke too. These players barely attend class, float their way through their classes, and most of them do not even graduate. I feel the universities should be compelled to return a little bit of the monies back to the players. Giving a player a grand or 2 isn't going to break the bank of anyone. It will also help to keep the players on the up and up. As Bart said, it isn't the players getting half a million that are the problem. Its the average every players who take a couple hundred bucks here and there from a booster member so they can go buy a PS3 or an Xbox. In regards to scholarships, i'd liek to see schools stop with the farce of making players "attend" classes. What the schools should do is have these players come in and agree to play football for the university, and in exchange, award scholarship "years" that can be redemmed down the road when the player actually needs a degree and might actually benefit. The great majority of these payers either never sniff the NFL, or wash out after a year or so. To top it off, they then have a worthless degree. Let these guys come back to school afterwards when they can actually attend class and get a useful degree so they have a fighting chance in the future when their dreamss don't pan out.

I don't get it either. I've been to it a bunch of times, but Bass Pro (as someone mentioned) is just Gander Mountain on roids. Its a giant camping/hunting/fishing store. They sell anything and everything relating, including boats and ATVs. Pretty cool place to go to, but not some place you make a special trip for.

So let me get this straight...JP Losman puts up an identical statistical season to 1999 doug flutie in 2006, yet flutie is the reason that the Bills made the playoffs. Yeah, right. Doug Flutie. As many playoff wins as any other QB since Jim Kelly.

Oh thats right...Flutie did what was needed to win the games, and the other 52 players were responsible for the losses.

I wonder if he's going to come out of lurking and threaten to take his ball and go home...again.

It had a rabid base of us...uhh, i mean "those" loyal fans.